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The Homelands Blog

The photo above, from a 2015 story by Bear Guerra and Ruxandra Guidi published in Americas Quarterly, has won a prestigious American Photography award. The piece, “Indigenous Residents of Lima’s Cantagallo Shantytown Confront an Uncertain Future,” describes how …

The Homelands Blog

The latest “Food for 9 Billion” feature, on the connection between farmland investment and displacement in Ethiopia, airs tonight on PBS NewsHour. It was produced and reported by Cassandra Herrman and Beth Hoffman and edited …

Bangladesh has made dramatic progress in feeding its people. Can it stop a changing climate from erasing the gains?

Muhammad Salauddin helps his father, Muhammad Sekendar, shore up the earthen platform that elevates their new house in southeast Bangladesh. Their old house was wiped away by a cyclone, and their land was saturated with salt. Photo by Jonathan Miller.

Bangladesh has made dramatic progress in feeding its people. Can it stop a changing climate from erasing the gains?

A giant dam project on the border of Paraguay and Argentina raises questions about the social and environmental impact of major infrastructure projects.

Dozens of dams were built in South America between the 1960s and early 1990s. Many were financed by the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, to bring progress to the continent by harnessing its powerful rivers for industry and growing urban populations.

The largest of these dams was Yacyretá, on the border between Paraguay and Argentina. Yacyretá was to produce thousands of megawatts of energy. But it was also to flood the biologically richest area of both countries, and force the largest urban displacement by a development project in history.

In the latter half of the 1980s, the banks held up loans to Yacyretá, pending plans to address environmental and social concerns. Then, despite protests that people and endangered animals would be left homeless, the banks began preparing to restart the loans, raising questions about the policy of international lenders to leave environmental protection and resettlement to the borrowing countries.

Narration is by Edward James Olmos, who hosted a series of 13 half-hour Vanishing Homelands specials.

Part 2 of a two-part report from Honduras examines attempts by foreign and private relief agencies to regenerate the soil and help farmers stay on their lands.

For decades, inequitable land distribution, slash-and-burn farming, and uncontrolled erosion have turned entire regions in Latin America into desert, and forced hundreds of thousands of farmers into towns and cities.

This has created a new kind of migrant: the environmental refugee.

But two programs in southern Honduras are looking at ways to help restore the damaged soils, and keep farmers on their lands.

One is a grassroots effort that could serve as a model for small-scale development projects. The other is a U.S.-funded plan that is trying to change the way people farm across the entire country.

Narration is by Edward James Olmos, who hosted a series of 13 half-hour Vanishing Homelands specials.